02965cam a2200409 i 4500 1070507352 TxGeo 20231201120000.0 230501s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023004044 9780451493545 hbk. 0451493540 hbk. (OCoLC)1371015387 TxGeo rda Schulman, Daniel, author. The money kings : the epic story of the Jewish immigrants who transformed Wall Street and shaped modern America / Daniel Schulman. Epic story of the Jewish immigrants who transformed Wall Street and shaped modern America. First edition. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. xviii, 570 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman--who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy .. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind was Marcus Goldman, among the 'Forty-Eighters' fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers' IOUs to forming the largest investment banks in the world, underwriting businesses like Sears, General Motors, and Macy's that have long defined the face of a nation. In Money Kings, Daniel Schulman follows these dynasties through their earliest gambits; their major business deals and ascent to the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age; the complexities of the Civil War, World War I, and the Zionist movement that tested their fractured identities; and their enduring effect on the many non-German Jewish immigrants who came spilling off steamships in New York Harbor in the early 1900s, including Schulman's grandparents. With the dynamic banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff leading the way, The Money Kings is an engrossing tale about materialism and moralism, family successions and alliances, and the immigrants who dreamed America into being"-- Provided by publisher. 20231215. Jews United States. Businesspeople United States. Investment bankers United States. Immigrants Economic aspects. Finance United States. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) QS5